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"I dinna ken," said Steenie; "the book had fa'en out o' his pocket, I fancy, for I fand it amang my feet when I was graping about to set him on his logs again, and I just pat it in my pouch to keep it safe; and then came the tramp of horse, and you cried, Rin, rin, and I had nae mair thought o' the book."
I was turnt to stane, like,'at I didna believe I cud hae fa'en frae the cheir gien I had swarfed clean awa'. An' eh but it tuik a time to open that door!
It wad be sair upo' baith o' 's to pairt an' to me a vex forby 'at the first thing w'alth did for me sud be to tak you awa'. It wad 'maist brak my hert to think 'at her 'at cam throu the lan' o' drowth wi' me ay, tuik me throu' 't' for, wantin' her, I wad hae fa'en to rise nae mair, sud gang on climmin' the dry hill-ro'd, an' me lyin' i' the bonny meadow-gerse at the fut o' 't.
I had gane out to the cove the tide was in, and it flowed, as ye'll remember, to the foot o' that cliff it was a great convenience that for my husband's trade Where am I wandering? I saw a white object dart frae the tap o' the cliff like a sea-maw through the mist, and then a heavy flash and sparkle of the waters showed me it was a human creature that had fa'en into the waves.
A dark curtain has fa'en ower the past, and the few that witnessed ony part of it could only surmise something of seduction and suicide. You yourself" "I know I know it all," answered the Earl. "You indeed know all that I can say And now, heir of Glenallan, can you forgive me?" Lord Glenallen and Elspeth "Ask forgiveness of God, and not of man," said the Earl, turning away.
"Spies of Rob!" said Inverashalloch. "We wad serve them right to strap them up till the neist tree." "We are gaun to see after some gear o' our ain, gentlemen," said the Bailie, "that's fa'en into his hands by accident there's nae law agane a man looking after his ain, I hope?" "How did you come by this letter?" said the officer, addressing himself to me.
"Thou maun do without horse-sheet and surcingle now, lad," he said, addressing the animal; "you and me hae had a downcome alike; we had better hae fa'en i, the deepest pool o' Tarras."
"Spies of Rob!" said Inverashalloch. "We wad serve them right to strap them up till the neist tree." "We are gaun to see after some gear o' our ain, gentlemen," said the Bailie, "that's fa'en into his hands by accident there's nae law agane a man looking after his ain, I hope?" "How did you come by this letter?" said the officer, addressing himself to me.
I downa bide to think how the young hae fa'en on a' sides o' me, and left me an useless auld stump wi' hardly a green leaf on't." "This old woman," said Oldbuck, "sent you on a message to the Earl of Glenallan, did she not?" "Ay!" said the surprised mendicant; "how ken ye that sae weel?"
D'ye think I wad hae comed out at twal o'clock at night, and amaist broken the Lord's day, just to tell a fa'en man o' his backslidings? Na, na, that's no Bailie Jarvie's gate, nor was't his worthy father's the deacon afore him.
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